Sentence examples for downing tools from inspiring English sources

The Otters are downing tools.

A spokesperson for one of the unions downing tools in the second London-wide Tube strike in as many months has refused to rule out further 48-hour action within weeks of tomorrow's planned strike.

For the second time in as many months, members of four Tube unions – RMT, TSSA, Aslef and Unite – are downing tools and shutting down London's Underground for 24-hours.

Or maybe they're so depressed by the recession, lack of skilled jobs for those with higher qualifications and their £27,000+ debts, they're downing tools in favour of nights of hedonistic abandon?

Some people point to the fact that the Directors Guild of America, whose contract was also up for renewal, managed to get a broadly similar deal from the media conglomerates without downing tools at all.In other ways, too, the writers' strike may backfire on them.

It's just that he occasionally appears to be on the verge of downing tools and his victories have usually been attributed as much to the nursing and cajoling of riders such as Ruby Walsh, who conjured a sensational late surge out of him in last season's Lexus, as they have been to his own outstanding ability.

The demons down tools for a chat.

They could down tools and blame the government.

When engineers downed tools, its planes stopped flying.

So should we all down tools and up leads?

If they down tools, the DLR doesn't run.